This projects gathers five partner schools from Portugal, Italy, Poland, Spain and Turkey, all secondary ones, both regular and VET. Therefore, when our students leave us they achieved their majority, which means that they are fully entitled citizens. Although all of us try our best to educate our students is a systemic way, we all have to assume that we must improve our methodologies in order to create a more active citizen. Regardless of their origin or the system of education they attend, our students leave our schools without the will to actively participate in the society! According to the partners' common analysis by the teachers who teach these subjects, students have no concern whatsoever about becoming/being a national and an European citizen, and they take for granted key values of our civilization, without really knowing what they mean. We also discovered a seeming paradox: although they blame the Society/the State for their daily problems - lack of career pathways / unemployment, lack of interest in any subject - they don't know how to step in to try to solve, or at least try to.We've also concluded accordingly that the traditional teaching methodology of these subjects should be upgraded. Hence, this project aims to design a new approach to develop secondary students' social and civic competences, based on a active methodology that will allow students to use ICT (namely OERs - internet searches, portable devices, video editors, graphic design softwares, online questionnaires) and live interviews, in order to produce innovative and atractive teaching materials related to these competences, which can be included .It fits several objectives of Erasmus + School Education Strategic Partnerships: it will develop and test new learning tools, strategically using an open and flexible apprenticeship with OER. During the students exchanges, mixed nations students' initiatives will occur so they will be able to see in loco and learn by themselves the added value of an active citizenship.These events and the products will be organized within five major axes: Individual citizenship; Social citizenship; Local/regional citizenship; National citizenship; European citizenship.It is both innovative and complementary to what’s been doing. It's complementary because it focus on subjects that are taught in all our schools - social and civic competences, but does it in an innovative way - instead of focusing on the teacher, allows internationally mixed teams of students to use ICT and OER to learn actively, by themselves, with colleagues from other cultures and countries, in order to understand the full potential and meaning for them, both socially and professionally, of enjoying a meaninful citizenship.It will have five exchanges where students will create learning materials related to each axis, so their colleagues that didn't attend can later also learn from it. The final activity wil be each group to write a critical analysis report detailing what they learnt during that week, comparing with the result from the diagnosis questionnaire. The goal is to have them conclude what they can do in order to be a fully active citizen within that dimension.
This projects gathered five partner schools from Portugal, Italy, Poland, Spain and Turkey, all secondary ones, three regular and two VET. It aimed to design a new approach to develop secondary students' social and civic competences, based on a active methodology that allowed students to use ICT (namely OERs - internet searches, portable devices, video editors, graphic design softwares, online questionnaires) and live interviews, with which they recorded, edited and uploaded several videos (whose scripts were prepared by them), producing innovative and atractive teaching materials related to these competences, which were included in schools' classes. During the LTTAs, organized under an axis each - Individual Citizenship; Social Citizenship; Local/regional Citizenship; National Citizenship; European Citizenship - students were organized in mixed nations groups and, mentored by teachers, they did three types of activities: drawing posters related to the subject, as a first approach to it, developing their creativity and allowing the host school to have several posters, created and targeted to students, to hang on its corridors (important for internal and external (visitors) communication); design scripts for the interviews, after research and consequent systematization of its results, recorded them, edited them and uploaded them, to be used as resources on partner and other schools; visited national landmarks related to the topic of that meeting (parliaments, public services, NGOs, ...) and critically reflecting over it. It had definitely shown all our students the dimensions of a full European Citizen, like free movement of people to live, study and/or work (the EURES network was unknown, even for some teachers); the European Health Insurance Card, that allowed them to go to a public hospital for free, as they were local citizens; the Democratic basis of Europe and their own country, regardless of the political organization (local vs. regional vs. central; republic vs. monarchy;);... The final activity of each activity was a critical analysis report detailing what they learnt during that week, comparing with the result from the diagnosis questionnaire. There were several videos created after designing and implementing a learning methodology, where students are in the center of transversal projects, prepared under School's Mission and with imputs from stakeholders. Not only students learnt several topics in a different way, but they came much closer to several areas of society they were just aware, from NGOs to several areas of political intervention (local, regional and national), so they were able to demystify topics, interventions, places they usually only know from books, TVs, ..., so they are now able to interveign in society, in a way they - their parents and teachers - had never considered. For schools, this project brought a whole new level of recognition from their stakeholders, new structured national projects signed/awarded, new students, a recognition of their praxis by current and potential families and students.